In Z-City, a stark ***** girl laid on a bed inside an ice-cold underground laboratory. She had a shaved head, and there were syringes and test tubes injected into her entire body; two tubes as thick as an adult human arm were also stabbed into her head. Her entire body was covered with purple bruises.

To Qin Yi, the pure white laboratory was the dirtiest place in the world. She truly wanted to die.

“Di!” The door opened and a lady dressed in a white gown walked in leisurely, followed by a man in a white oriental gown.

“Elder sister, I’ve brought you good news.” Qin Jiaojiao looked at Qin Yi’s numb face, flicked the long hair on her bosom, and continued. “Daddy is about to become the authoritarian of Z-City’s rescue district. I have to say, this was all thanks to elder sister’s selfless contributions.”

At Qin Yi’s indifference, Qin Jiaojiao smiled. “Oh right, elder sister, Zheng Zhong and I are going to be married. But I’m afraid that I can’t invite you to the wedding feast. After all, you know how much Daddy and Zheng Zhong hate you.”

Qin Yi’s eyes were filled with hatred as she struggled and howled in anguish.

Qin Jiaojiao’s gaze was extremely gentle. “Aiyaya, what are you trying to say, elder sister? Oh, I forgot that you can’t speak.”

Qin Yi continued struggling as her eyes dyed red with overflowing hatred.

Seeing Qin Yi’s embarrassing actions, Qin Jiaojiao laughed out loud. “Qin Yi, so what if you’re an ice-lightning dual-ability user? In the end, Daddy still abandoned you and Zheng Zhong doesn’t even want you. I am the real young miss of the Qin family, and you’re nothing but a bane.” Qin Jiaojiao’s eyes were suddenly filled with a crazed look, and even her beautiful face had distorted into an ugly look. “Today, I will peel out the ability core from your brain. But don’t you worry, your powers will soon be mine.”

With that, Qin Jiaojiao gestured to Doctor Lin. He sauntered over to Qin Yi’s side, revealing his face that was filled with fanaticism. He picked up a surgical knife and made cuts on Qin Yi bit by bit, as though appreciating an outstanding work of art.

As Qin Jiaojiao felt the pain, she dested and truly hated Qin Jiaojiao, Zheng Zhong, and all of those who lied to her. But most of all, she hated her stupid self.

‘Heh, if I could do it all over again, I would not let a single one of you go!’

As she heard Qin Jiaojiao’s maniacal laughter, Qin Jiaojiao felt her consciousness gradually fading. She was free.

“Who allowed you to come here? Get lost.”

“Our Qin family doesn’t welcome you, leave now.”

“You trash, why are you a girl? Why are you forbidding him from seeing me, ah?”

“Hey, we’re not going to play with you anymore, illegitimate child. Your mother is a vixen, you’re a little vixen.”

Qin Yi was perspiring from head to toe. ‘No, no, I’m not, I’m not. Why doesn’t anyone want me?’

Qin Yi suddenly sat up on the bed with widened eyes as she gasped for breath. She was startled as the familiar room entered her eyes. She quickly turned to the headboard, only to see the calendar marked with the date 1st of July, 2012. She had truly undergone a rebirth, a rebirth that had brought her to half a month before the start of the apocalypse.

She suddenly started laughing hysterically, which then turned into a bawl. Large drops of tears fell from her eyes, as though venting out all the grievances in her life. After crying for an unknown period of time, Qin Yi opened her eyes once more. This time, her eyes were void of tears and only a distorted smile remained on her face. The corners of her mouth twitched as her entire body emitted a cold, baleful aura, as though she was a devil that had crawled out of the depths of hell.

‘Qin Family, Zheng Family, Doctor Lin, are all of you prepared? I, Qin Yi, have returned.’

Qin Yi got up and took a shower. Once done, she looked into the mirror at the thin, weak, and malnourished girl who had long bangs covering half of her face and gave a mocking smile. She lifted her bangs and revealed a slightly tanned but delicate and beautiful face.

More than anything, Qin Jiaojiao hated that Qin Yi was prettier than her. Qin Yi could clearly recall a time back when she was 10 years-old, where Qin Jiaojiao had looked at her weakly with tears in her eyes and said as though she had been wronged, “Elder sister, everyone says you’re prettier than Jiaojiao. Jiaojiao is unhappy.”

At that point in time, Qin Yi had truly doted on her younger sister. To keep her happy, she kept her fringe long to hide her face. This action lasted for six years.

During her childhood, she had no father and stayed with her maternal grandmother and mother. Her mother hated her and constantly scolded and beat her. Only her grandmother protected her. Her grandmother was Qin Yi’s only ray of light.

When she was five, her mother brought her to an extremely beautiful house. Inside the house was an extremely cold uncle, an aunt that had a terrible smile, two boys that stared at her with intense rage, and a pleasant little girl.

Her mother then told her that they were her father, elder brothers, and younger sister. She happily greeted them, feeling that having a father was so great, but she only received disgust and beratings in return.

She and her mother stayed in another beautiful home, but the man she called father never visited her and the beatings and scoldings she received from her mother intensified. When she was 10 years old, her grandmother and mother passed away in succession, leaving the man no choice but to bring her home. It made her extremely happy, but she received nothing but indifference and disinterest.

Only Qin Jiaojiao bothered about her, and this affection quickly made Qin Yi adore her kind younger sister. She relied on her and covered her own face for her. When boys bullied Jiaojiao, she was the first to come to her help. To conceal her own strength, she willingly placed last in the rankings and voluntarily left the Qin family.

Her water ability awakened when the apocalypse happened. Nevertheless, she did her utmost to protect the Qin family. She thought her father and family had slowly accepted her, but they quickly drifted apart once they awakened their own abilities. She thought that she was not doing enough and killed even more zombies as if her life depended on it. This transformed her water ability into ice.

After arriving in Z-City’s rescue district, she accepted missions daily for the Qin family’s sake, so that they could eat well. One of the missions awakened her lightning ability. Aware that her father intended to grasp power, she worked harder to expand their influence. Countless people were willing to follow her, who had dual abilities, but she directed them all to her father.

After that, Doctor Lin from Kyoto requested to study all the first awakened ability users. Trusting her younger sister, she offered herself up to Doctor Lin. After that, she suffered all sorts of torment every day, along with daily visits from her good younger sister. This action shattered her 20-year long dreams.

“You really thought that I adored you, but I was only playing with you.”

“You illegitimate child, you thought daddy would accept you? In your dreams.”

“Dad was just using you to pave a road for our Qin family, and it was his idea to give you to Doctor Lin.”

“Haha, do you know why daddy and all the teachers and classmates hate you? It is because I was constantly telling them things about you. Your reputation was ruined by me.”

“You pitiful scum, I am the real young miss of the Qin Family. You’re nothing but a bane. Everything of yours was given to you by me on a whim.”

Upon recalling the past, the cold intent in Qin Yi’s eyes grew deeper. ‘Heh, pitiful scum, let us see who the true pitiful scum of this world is.’

As Qin Yi picked up a towel and dried her hair, she suddenly discovered an enchanting black jimson weed that was the size of a baby’s fist. She reached out to touch it involuntarily. ‘Since when did this flower appear here? It wasn’t there in my previous life.’

When Qin Yi touched the strange flower, she suddenly disappeared. Opening her eyes, she found herself in an empty space.

A great amount of information flooded into Qin Yi’s brain. After digesting all the information, she finally understood where she was.

Hailed as the Origin Space, it was created by Doyen Epoch Heaven. Unknowingly, it had wandered onto Earth and formed a spirit contract with Qin Yi. The Origin Space had an abundance of spirit qi with fertile land for vegetation as well as an exquisitely refined bamboo house. Behind the house was a large, empty space with sporadic fruit trees growing around it. There was a small creek in front of the house and a pond to its left. To the right of the pond was a spiritual spring that contained spring water capable of washing marrows and healing wounds.

The time flow inside the Origin Space was 1:10 of the outside world. Due to the abundance of spirit qi, plants inside grew and matured at a rapid rate.

After comprehending everything, a change finally occurred within Qin Yi’s chilling eyes. This space was the perfect facility for the apocalypse.

Supplies were what was needed most in the apocalypse. Qin Yi had survived the apocalypse for over a decade and, as a result, knew the importance of supplies. In the initial five years, humans survived by relying on the remaining food stock. As time passed and the stock of stored supplies dwindled, humanity had no choice but to grow their own food. Countless wood ability users were called to plant and grow food, but not long after receiving results, the soil became contaminated and the food would not grow. Humanity had to resort to eating mutated animals and plants, turning many into zombies.

As more and more people starved to death, cannibals appeared. Even when Qin Yi was captured, food remained a huge problem.

Qin Yi’s eyes flushed with excitement. With the Origin Space, it was different now. She was completely self-sustainable and no longer had to worry about food. However, the term supplies were enough to cause others to move, and as she was used to seeing those in power snatching and seizing items of value during the apocalypse, she knew that the matter of being able to grow food in the space had to be kept a secret.

In this new world, she would only believe in herself and no longer be the foolish Qin Yi.

After thinking about it, Qin Yi stripped and walked towards the spirit spring, which had a marrow washing effect that she needed. Although ability users were strong, the consumption of abilities was equally fast. Once the ability was completely used up, she could only wait for death.

Qin Yi had suffered from this in her past life. It was only due to a stroke of luck that she had awakened her lightning abilities at a crucial moment. Otherwise, she would have turned into food for zombies. After the incident, she diligently tempered her body, but it was still too late.

In this new world, she wanted a good physique and the ability to hide her abilities at the beginning of the apocalypse. In her previous incarnation, the majority of first-generation awakened users were captured for experiments. She was one of those who had offered herself to her younger sister. She thought about how she had eagerly reported her awakened abilities to the Qin Family immediately after gaining them. It was truly the most foolish thing she had done.

Qin Yi took a deep breath and was about to throw all of those thoughts away, but she hesitated. She knew she was not in a rush. She had to regain all that they owed her in the past life.

Immediately after immersing herself in the spirit spring, Qin Yi felt a surge of warm energy flow into her entire body, the comfortable feeling putting her at ease. But in less than a minute, a piercing pain enveloped her entire body; all of her muscles and bones were breaking and growing again. She bit her lip and endured it all. She had to endure it, for fainting during the marrow washing process would be less valuable than being awake.

Fracture, grow, fracture again, grow again. Qin Yi had experienced the same cycle countless times, yet did not make a single sound, her conviction and overflowing hatred continuing to give her the strength and support she needed to go through this process.

After the marrow washing finally ended, Qin Yi was able to clearly feel everything, her five senses having grown sharper and her strength having increased. Her tanned skin had turned white and her dried hair had become jet-black and smooth.

She sensed her dantian burning up and subconsciously looked down, discovering imprints of two fingernail-sized balls on her abdomen, one blue and one grey. This was…

Qin Yi was shocked—this was an ability core! But the ability core of an ability user was grown in the brain… Why was it in her abdomen?

She focused, gathered her water ability, and went to shoot a water arrow into the distance but did not expect an ice arrow to shoot out. She had always been very calm, but even she was shocked.

She originally got her ice ability due to a mutation at a later stage. Why did she have it from the moment she arrived here? She only got her ability after the apocalypse, yet it was now with her earlier on. And that gray ball was not a lightning type. What exactly was it?

Qin Yi thought about it for a while and felt that it might be the efficacy of the spirit spring, which allowed her ability’s evolution to be brought forward. This was a good thing since an ice ability was more powerful than a water ability. One more ability type was more protection for her.

She looked down at her clothes and realized that her originally knee-length nightgown had become shorter, leading her to believe that the marrow washing made her grow quite a bit.

Qin Yi moved in a flash, now wearing a black, short-sleeved shirt and long pants. Noting that her pants had shortened quite a bit, she guessed that she had grown at least five centimeters taller. In her previous life, Qin Yi was anorexic and had always looked malnourished. During the apocalypse, her anorexia was cured, but she gave everything good to the Qin family.

She only ate biscuits and instant noodles while giving all the rice, meat, and vegetables to the Qin family. When she died, she wasn’t even over 1.6 meters tall, her appearance making her seem like a little girl who hadn’t ever grown up.

Qin Yi tied up her hair, wore a cap and mask, and brought along the card that her father, Qin Mian, gave her.

The apocalypse was just around the corner and she didn’t have much time left. She had to purchase supplies quickly.

Although Qin Mian hated her, he gave her a large allowance every month. Qin Yi knew that he was trying to keep her away by giving her lots of money, making sure she didn’t step foot into the Qin family.

‘There is about $500,000 in this card, but it’s not enough,’ Qin Yi thought. She looked at the apartment and suburbs she was currently living in and the villa under her name.

She went to an agency and sold the villa and the apartment for $10 million and $5 million respectively, planning to move out in August.

With cash in her hands, Qin Yi began buying, buying, and buying, throwing herself into it with vigor.

She first bought 100 kilograms of rice and millet each and 50 kilograms of various vegetables. After that, she bought ten seeds each of various fruit trees and headed to the supermarket to get household products like pots, shovels, oil…

It wasn’t easy to get hot food during the apocalypse. Now that she had these resources, she wouldn’t treat herself shabbily.

Toilet paper, check. 

‘During the apocalypse, everyone used leaves to clean themselves, so this is a must-buy.’

Shampoo, check. 

All sorts of clothing, check.

Water was very important during the apocalypse because most of the water resources were polluted and unsafe for human consumption, causing people to rely solely on the water ability users. Qin Yi swept all the bottles of water off the shelves without any hesitation.

Even someone like Qin Yi, who disliked shopping, felt a hint of joy in all of this. Finally, with a smile on her face despite the shocked faces around her, she got the shop assistant to deliver the goods to her apartment.

Qin Yi had spent half of her money on just that one shopping trip. Feeling hungry, she decided not to mistreat herself. She entered a restaurant, ready to enjoy her lunch.

When the mouth-watering boiled fish with pickled cabbage and chili was served, Qin Yi felt instant gratification. It was very hard to obtain this amazing dish during the apocalypse, let alone eat it. She made a clean work of her food while planning her afternoon itinerary.

She had enough rice and vegetables, and the space would allow her plants to produce seeds, so she wasn’t worried about that. She also had all her daily necessities ready, and if they weren’t enough, she could stock up again during the apocalypse.